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...askew times, albeit something of a miniature. He is frequently photographed from low angles or astride a motorcycle, but when he can be caught in what passes for a spontaneous composition, he seems to be the height of a coffee table. He has the faintly demented courtly charm of Dwight Frye swallowing flies in Dracula, but his sexual charisma is at low tide in the dramatic scenes. All this changes in performance, where part Prince really comes out wailing, part Hendrix, part Screamin' Jay Hawkins. If music alone could make a movie masterpiece, then Purple Rain might have...
...them. Experts from the BBC will direct the soccer and equestrian events, a West German will coordinate coverage of team handball and a Dutchman will be in charge of cycling. Along with its own reporters, the network has also hired a score of expert analysts, including Olympian High Jumper Dwight Stones...
...beauty is motion, and motion does not last. Most things ephemeral have limited appeal, but the heart of the Olympics is that things shine for a moment and no more. Did Dwight Stones really clear that bar at 7 ft. 8 in.? One saw it happen a second ago. One saw it again on instant replay. Yet the jump no longer exists, nor can it return. Billy Mills, who won the 10,000-meter run in Tokyo, said, "For one fleeting moment an athlete will know he or she is the best in the world. Then the moment is gone...
...High Jumper Dwight Stones won the gold medal as he predicted-no, promised-in 1976, he would probably be a spectator by now, a television commentator most likely. As it happens, he is a part-time member of the ABC Olympic broadcasting team. Eleven years after making his first world mark at 19, the lovable loudmouth in the Mickey Mouse shirt flopped backward over a 7-ft. 8-in. bar last month at the trials and landed somewhere in his own past, right back in the thick of the sport...
...jumping came to me recently in training sessions, things that were apparently so obvious I missed them. I don't know why they came to me after so many years. I asked Harry why after all this time are these simple things coming to me. He said, 'Dwight, because this...